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...England for cash. And that - the emergency credit that King duly put up - was supposed to be that. It wasn't. Far from reassuring savers, the central bank's efforts amounted to "the equivalent of screaming fire in a crowded cinema," offered John McFall, chairman of the Treasury select committee. King could hardly quibble with that, but coming to his own defense, the Governor made clear it hadn't been his favored remedy. And here, he said, he was let down by the law. His preference for giving Northern Rock covert help - only letting the public in on the move...
Shorenstein Center Fellows and Programs Administrator Edith Holway said that the center weighed past career experience and the currency of applicants’ research proposals to select them from the pool of about 50 applicants. Typically fellows are in the middle of their career and have at least ten years of experience...
...warehouse headquarters, customer involvement varies. Purple-fingered zealots sort through the grapes, while others sit at home in foreign countries fine-tuning their wine plans on the Web. Using Crushpad's online services and consultations with the staff winemaker, home enologists select grapes from specific vineyards (or provide their own) and are then led through the Crushpad 30, a list of options and decisions about the winemaking process: Duration of skin contact? Natural or cultured yeasts? What type of bottle closure? Customers must commit to at least one barrel of wine, which ranges in price from $5,000 to more...
According to the Worldwide Governance Indicators report, which ranks countries by the amount of freedom citizens have to voice opinions and select a government, the U.S. tops out at 35th place--a drop from its rank of 22nd in 2005 because of a decreased trust in public officials and restrictions on the freedom of the press. "The U.S. is not a model," says Daniel Kaufmann, a lead author of the report, but it is far from the doghouse...
...McGill University in Montreal show that poor scores in the communication portion of the test are highly predictive of which new doctors are likely to clash with patients in the future. By evaluating communication skills early on, say the study's authors, physicians and academics can better train and select the next generation of medical professionals...